How Often do you….?
There’s not much food in the fridge. I haven’t gone grocery shopping for lunch. You know…lunch is my hardest. I mean it’s always difficult for me to decide what to eat for lunch. Maybe I should start incorporating my lunches in the Weekly Dinner Menu as well. I’ll have to start next week because Long and I are heading out to San Jose this weekend for Father’s day. I haven’t been there since January (our wedding day). That might be a long time away, but after going almost twice a month on entire weekends, I think it is okay.
Question:
- How often do you visit your in-laws?
- How often do you visit your family members?
Loose White Tea
Total Whole Grain cereal with plain soy milk
What I ate yesterday:
Homemade frozen waffles pulled out of the freezer and topped with creamy peanut butter and raspberry preserves.
Green Beans & Tomatoes with rice. These green beans weren’t the best, but the tomatoes were ripe and sweet. 
My favorite green beans are those long Asian green beans. I just love the flavor and texture of it better. This one is too bland and soft.
Homemade popcorn. I just posted the recipe.
I had a craving for the Blueberry Blackberry Oatmeal. It seemed like I had none of the ingredients, so I tried my best with what I had on hand:
- rolled oats ~instead~ of steel cut oats
- raspberry preserves ~instead~ of blueberry blackberry sauce
- granola ~instead~ of brown sugar crumble
It actually turned out pretty good. Instead of making my oats watery like I normally do, I made it “thicker” and with a little more crunch. don’t ask me how I did it. I just did. Experimenting and will soon find the right texture soon. I should get my hands on some steel cut oats though…
Here’s today’s Agenda:
- Blog: A Fat Cat Who Created A Vegetarian
- Hiking with Loomis at Caesar Chavez dog park
- Random exercises: chin-ups, chair dips, push-ups, Pilates
- Grocery shopping: tonight’s dinner is either burritos or pizza. Haven’t decided yet.
- Maybe stop by the fabric store in Berkeley
- Blog: post for The Circle: This post is going to be about Vitamins and Minerals. Make sure you come by and check it out. You must register (free) to see and post a comment
- Job hunting
- Phone calls
All of this should keep me busy for a while. See ya later!
I visit my in-laws almost every weekend. My family – maybe once a year
. Too bad they live half way across the country.
Melissa
June 19, 2009
sounds like a busy day! i need to go grocery shopping and job hunting too…
Dorothy
June 19, 2009
Your eats all look so yummy and soothing to the belly
I don’t get to visit my parents that often since they’re far away and I get very busy in my semester. As for in-laws.. they don’t exist hehe
Katharina
June 19, 2009
I almost always eat leftovers for lunch, unless there’s not enough or I’ve bought an avocado or want a salad or something. Our family all lives here and we try to see them each a couple of times a month though we should try for more.
Mmm I haven’t made waffles for a while.
Ashley
June 19, 2009
my weekday lunches are easy…because I normally have a base of greens and add ramdon “stuff” I have in the fridge. Hubs eats leftover meal type foods…
Weekend lunches are harder because I try and make a LUNCH for everyone and I have to usually cook a meal like dinner…and with baby.. it’s a lot to fit in that time of day. Lately it’s been fend for yourself…sandwiches, leftovers etc.
good luck! it IS a great excuse to be creative!
looking forward to your vitamin post on the CIRCLE.
mariposagirl
June 20, 2009
Homemade popcorn?! You have my attention!
Emily
June 20, 2009
Emily:
homemade popcorn is the best! I posted the recipe on my recipes page. Try it out and let me know how it goes. It’s super simple to make, just a little time consuming because you have to stand at the stove and watch it so that it does not burn. you could also make it “kettle” popcorn by adding sugar to it. I’ve tried this and added chocolate chips and dried fruit, it was good!
Leng
June 23, 2009
Mariposagirl:
My husband eats leftovers for lunch as well. Me, I’m a little more high maintenance. I don’t really like to eat leftovers for lunch. I prefer sandwiches and hand held items. I should incorporate more greens into my lunch though… and I agree it is a great excuse to be creative.
I was planning on posting something about vitamins and minerals, but ended up doing just one (for now). I feel that there are so much info about each and everyone that it’s hard to pass it up. It’ll eventually accumulate on all of the vits and mins that are controversial for Vegetarians/vegans and I’ll provide links to each one, for easy reference. Thanks for visiting the circle!
Leng
June 23, 2009